It's time for the Hacker News Bonus Round! It's that time of day where we all get the stand around and laugh at internets! Now with more characters because Mastodon!

> I know the point of this article is to demonstrate how to solve a problem but the premise is a bad one and must not be confused with sound software architecture at all. In fact it's slightly painful reading it and I really wish people would stop writing articles like this.

This means I'm doing it correctly. Like really. I'm presenting a bad idea. I'm explaining why I did it. If you walk into my blog expecting that everything be crystalline towers of absolute perfection, you are in error. Sometimes I have bad ideas and explain why they are bad. If you don't like that, not commenting is free.

> What we have here is a Rube Goldberg machine, not a cleanly solved engineering problem.

YES AND IT IS GLORIOUS! DONT YOU SEE? IT'S PERFECTLY STUPID! The best kinds of hacks are the ones that look ludicrous but are actually somewhat fine in practice.

> People have been using linked libraries to re-use code across languages since forever, it's fine.

People have been bloodletting since forever but that doesn't mean it's fine. Losing your blood juice tends to kill you unless you're careful.

> Give us a real use case not manufacture a problem for it.

Pay me then. My blog is an effort in giving people bad ideas and understanding they they work, down to the philosophy level.

> Is the definition of "how do I get promoted in a company where I don't care if it survives the next five years", not "a cleanly solved engineering problem".

I thought you people liked bad, unviable ideas. That's half of what you internets upvote. Why should you treat this any different? Is it because I have my website CSS as queer-coded and present myself as nonbinary? Subconscious bias much?